Petey Greene - How to Eat Watermelon (Enhanced)
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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In this clip from civil rights activist Petey Greene's Washington DC television program in the Spring of 1982, Greene explains how to eat watermelon. Utterly bizarre. Also, pointers on eating corn and fried chicken.
There is, by the way, an AWESOME book out all about Petey, titled "Laugh if you like" by Lurma Rackley...you can get it on Amazon.
Oscar nominee Don Cheadle portrays Petey Greene in a 2007 movie based loosely on Petey's life titled "Talk To Me" which is available on DVD.
The song at the end of Petey's video (used as his show's theme music) is "Amazon" by Earl Klugh from "The Best of Earl Klugh, Vol. 1".
For the last 6-7 years it has been a tradition for me to watch this video when I crack open my first watermelon of the summer. RIP PETEY
Joshua Soto Now THAT's Respect! :-D Right On, brother! Petey dropped Truth. Eating my honey on the vine right now!
Jose Betters xD
+Joshua Soto me too!
Mine too! I’m here now because I just cut my first watermelon of the season!
Haha me tooo!! I just did just that. Cracked open a big ass watermelon lol
This is the single most important video on youtube.
GreazyBiker 😂😂😂😂
I've been laughing for FIVE min omg
Peep the message! Be yourself!
Like literally
I’m eating a watermelon right now!Haha!
the amount of blackness in this video is at an astronomical level
Hahahahahaha
LOL
over 9000 would you say?
@@indigosunset70 lmao!
Indigo Sunset definitely over fiftyleven
man, some people just can't see the message. he's litterally saying 'watermelon is delicious, you're a fool if you change yourself because of what other people might think'
Well said.
The message is “Ooga booga boogie!”
Fake deep
I thought it was a white guy in black face until saw more clips haha
Truth
Wound up here because of an old Patrice Oneal appearance on Opie and Anthony
me too
love your stuff
Indeed!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 me to hahahahahaha! Punching out.
dunnnana dunnnana da dunnnana dunnnana da dunnnana dunnnana da!!! lmao Patrice always had the best lines. Miss him even tho I never met him
Man, I've never wanted a piece of watermelon so much in my life...
Sad because it’s actually very good and healthy. Eating watermelon was made to seem “ghetto” and “low life” by “people” who thought it criminal for the black people who sold them to make a living. Once the “people,” saw it was profitable they vilified it to hurt sales. Oh, they also smell as good as they taste😃. I know you didn’t ask but I just learned these interesting facts and I think sharing is caring - so I shared. I hope you try it...and check out how it does the body good!
Same, and I'm allergic.
😂😂
The whole truth!!!🤣🤣🤣 watermelon is good!!! And everybody love it!!! Just make sure that it's got seeds in it!!! 🤣🤣🤣💯🙏🏿❤️
Lmao, he looks like he's biting into water itself.
"lawdhammercy!"
Petey Greene, you were awesome and we miss you sir.
"Dont hold out on me woman...You just tryin to keep the good part for yourself..."🤣🤣🤣🤣
It has been difficult adopting this line as a swede in sweden.
@@densmorde4520 I was thinking of trying this in finland
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
She tried to be slick 😂😂😂
Please don't ever take the video down. I can't live without it.
I dont think people got the message he delivered. It was kinda about the watermelon but also more about how blacks are embarrassed to be themselves after so much stereotypes for doing things the way our people were accustomed to and for the same people(whites) we r trying to negate this stereotype to theyre "eating watermelon fred chicken and corn on the cob" the same way we shame our own people for being stereotyped for.
you're awesome!..but i think there are many of us folks who got what he was meaning to offer the viewers at that time - and at the *SAME* time, depending on one's age/generation maybe [re: us oldies and many years of..well..let's just say, *NEEDLESS* to say...], there is an obvious ton of humor in it was well!...both can be true, at once, together. *;-)*
it's her!, your sister!!
we got the message. Thanks
*****
Lola Falana is correct in her remark. Sorry. You'd love for it not to have any racial meaning. Sorry, Lola is correct.
***** and so is your mother🤣
We need more people in life like him such a beautiful message
This takes me back to when I met Petey at our house. I was 6. One of my fondest memories.
Wow!!! You were very fortunate!!!
What did he say??
You don't gotta lie to kick it homie.
Yooo 😆 he seems like a cool dude 😎
Lucky you.
This is a man who is comfortable in his own skin and happy with the way GOD made him. Here is a man with understanding. Let all those with ears to hear listen to the simplicity of good advice.
+S0chan
Ow the edge
@S0chan Next time you stub your toe, keep his name out yo mouth
The little voice in my head sounds like petey greene
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In the market and hear "Pick it up like this here..."
"Cold Blooded Country Bama's" LMFAOOOO
This Is so funny! How to eat a watermelon the right way! Lol
I pledge to live my life with the same passion as this man and his love for watermelon
His response at 0:51 is the correct response of awe and amazement after tasting God's culinary genius.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Almost took him out
Peter Greene, often affectionately dubbed "the funnest Americana public broadcaster ever to live," carved a unique niche for himself in the world of public access television in the Washington area. His show, "Greene's Grooves," became an iconic staple of local entertainment, blending humor, music, and community engagement in a way that resonated deeply with his audience. To understand why Greene's program was so beloved, it's essential to explore the various elements that made it a standout in the realm of public broadcasting.
Early Beginnings
Peter Greene's journey into public broadcasting began modestly. A native of the Washington area, Greene was known for his infectious energy and a knack for connecting with people from all walks of life. His initial foray into the world of media was as a college radio DJ, where his eclectic taste in music and witty commentary quickly garnered a loyal following. This early success laid the groundwork for what would become "Greene's Grooves."
The Show's Concept
"Greene's Grooves" was a public access show that aired weekly, featuring a mix of live music performances, interviews, and humorous skits. What set Greene's show apart was its unabashed celebration of Americana culture. The show embraced everything from bluegrass and folk music to local artisans and quirky community events. Greene's genuine enthusiasm for his content was palpable, and it translated into a warm, inviting atmosphere that made viewers feel like they were part of a larger community.
Music and Performances
A significant portion of "Greene's Grooves" was dedicated to live music performances. Greene had a talent for discovering local musicians and bands, providing them with a platform to showcase
Peter "Petey" Greene, widely celebrated as one of the most entertaining public broadcasters in American history, made a significant impact on the Washington, D.C. area with his dynamic and charismatic presence on both radio and television. Greene’s show, "Petey Greene’s Washington," which aired from 1976 to 1982 on WDCA-TV, became a cultural landmark, blending humor, candid social commentary, and community engagement in a way that resonated deeply with his audience (Wikipedia) (Little Village).
Early Life and Challenges
Greene's journey to becoming a beloved media figure was anything but straightforward. Born Ralph Waldo Greene Jr. in Washington, D.C., he faced numerous personal challenges, including a prison sentence for armed robbery. While incarcerated, he discovered his talent for speaking and entertaining, becoming a disc jockey for the prison radio station. His charismatic personality and ability to connect with listeners earned him early parole and set the stage for his broadcasting career (Wikipedia).
Rise to Fame
In 1966, Greene was hired by Dewey Hughes at WOL-AM, where he began hosting "Rapping with Petey Greene," a show that quickly gained popularity for its raw and honest discussions on social issues. Greene's ability to tackle topics such as racism, poverty, and drug addiction with humor and sincerity endeared him to a broad audience. His transition to television with "Petey Greene’s Washington" allowed him to reach an even larger audience and solidify his status as a local legend (Wikipedia).
Unique Broadcasting Style
What set Greene apart from other broadcasters was his unfiltered approach and willingness to address controversial issues head-on. His show was a mix of interviews, monologues, and audience interaction, all delivered with Greene’s signature wit and charm. He was known for his candidness, often using his platform to advocate for social justice and community improvement. Greene’s segments ranged from heartfelt discussions to humorous skits, making his show both entertaining and thought-provoking (Wikipedia).
Impact and Legacy
Greene’s influence extended beyond entertainment. He was an active community leader and used his platform to support various causes, including prison reform and civil rights. His efforts to give a voice to the voiceless and address systemic injustices left a lasting impact on the Washington, D.C. community and beyond. Even after his passing in 1984, Greene’s legacy continued through his autobiography and the film "Talk to Me," which chronicled his life and career (Wikipedia) (Little Village).
Conclusion
Peter Greene’s ability to blend humor with hard-hitting social commentary made "Petey Greene’s Washington" a standout in the world of public access television. His dedication to his community and his fearless approach to broadcasting earned him a place in the hearts of many and a lasting legacy as one of the most entertaining and impactful public broadcasters in American history. His story is a testament to the power of media as a tool for change and the enduring appeal of authenticity and humor in connecting with audiences (Wikipedia) (Little Village).
This is possibly the best video on the internet. This and bootleg fireworks.
GIT THE WATERMELON OH LAWD
Lighten up. Eat watermelon. Don't take yourself too seriously. Be happy.
Ben Argo Best advice in life!
How ridiculous is it to be embarrassed of eating a fruit. Shows how deep the wounds go
"I got it off the vine, Its sweet like honey...and I...plug it...all the time" "Sit back yall" Haha so good!
When I was in high school, my buddy and I, both white as sheets, would watch every episode of Petey Green. We loved that mutha, an original with soul and great humor. He will be missed.
Are you even alive
"Look lady! Don't try to get out on me!
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2:03 say again?
I dont want to mess the shirt up let me whip up 😂😂😂???
You got it
Lol!!!!! I don't know how i missed that!!! All i heard was "I don't wanna mess my shirt up..." the second part i have NO idea!!!
I don't wanna mess my shirt up, let me wipe my bottom lip ... AND LIVE IT !
I don’t wanna mess my shirt up , I done likely broke my ....? Lol
This man is a fucking genius. Who cares if somebody wants to judge you for eating watermelon the way you want to? I'm white as snow and I dig into wedges of watermelon like a pig at a trough, that shit is delicious.
I’m white and I put mayo on my sandwich with pride
@@scottydu81 ok?
It is delicious!
Man 11 years ago baked out of my mind I was shown this video. It's still one of the best things I've ever seen
Man, he was smackin' on that watermelon like crazy.
hahaha he was
***** Watch it on 0.5 speed, it's hilarious. He sounds drunk.
funny as hell though
Music1990Luver I wanna smack on your berry juice too.
Shit sound good af too! lol
you put a TWANG of salt on a sweet melon. brings out the accents.
i gonna try it one day. i dont like it but my moms love watermelon. i prefer honeydew
I'm in the black part of RUclips again.
I'm still coming back to watch Petey Green, I've got to see this several times a year, this cracks me up! LMBO!!!!
Don't put no two sticks around a corn a roastin ear!
This man is a legend why RUclips don't have more of his content up on here????
I'M WATCHING THIS VIDEO WITH PRINCE....
I MISS YOU PRINCE...REST EASY.... ♡♡♡♡
If this video is ever taken down, I don’t know what I’ll do.
2:03 excuse me sir what
BaronPraxis8492 "I don't mess the syrup I ain't whackin for MARGRET... JUST LEAVE IT"
BaronPraxis8492 "I doe meswit syrup, I wunkamaeyelip...ju lay bat!" ....I hope that clear thingz up for you. x) lol
Zigman2112 oh ok
"I don't wanna mess my shirt up"
BaronPraxis8492 dont want to mess my shirt up so i wipe myself on my arm like that...just lay back
Ah yes, the video that minecrafters found after spending 10 years to crack a secure files, only for it to link to this
Stupid
this isn’t Minecraft ver 1.0 (prerelease build)
Stupid
Best unintentional ASMR ever
Never before has there been a better rant, and there hasn't been a better rant since. This is one of the very first RUclips videos I'd ever seen, and I have no regrets.
Quien más está aquí por zico tops xd
Yo no lo conozco ahre xd
Yo
yo :v
Yop jajajaja
Stupid
"two cold blooded country bamas"..... LOL, real DC shit...
The fact that he bought public access time to deliver a PSA about watermelon etiquette is the funniest thing about this video...bless his heart.
I grew up with Petey Green in D.C. WDCA 20, I watched him more than Mr. Rogers, I'm a white boy and he was cold blooded honest and cool. He was Black and proud but always real. Miss you Mr. Green.
That is EXACTLY how you're supposed to eat a water melon!
This guy is awesome!
I wish I was this passionate about watermelon
I wish I was this passionate about anything in life
MickeRamone that was deep me too
MickeRamone I guess iam afraid to say things you can say lol
I laughed at this, because when I was growing up, my mother, G-d rest her soul, used a melon baller to cut up a watermelon just like he said and mix it with fruit cocktail and serve it in the shell because she thought that was the "fancy" way to do it. She was putting on airs, but to no one's benefit. Just give me slices and be done with it. So glad when she stopped the watermelon massacres. I did have to use the plastic things on the corn on the cobb though. My parents would both have had a coronary if I didn't.
Just a twang of salt...
It’s a pretty dope video because Black people have been shamed to almost being forbidden from eating watermelon without looking like some type of stereotype. We have to take back all these ludicrous tropes and like he said be ourselves! Some of us like watermelon, some don’t. To each his own. 🍉 🍉🍉
As a watermelon lover .. this is my go to PSA every summer 😂😂🤦🏿♂️
"I don't wanna mess my shirt up"..."I'm wipe my mouth off "..."and just lay back"....haha...this video is great!!
Man I've been tryna decipher.... 💯
@@pCOCKPRO11 😂😂😂 it’s great once you do. Still one of my favorite videos
@@canadianking77l🤣🤣🤣🤣 not all heroes wear capes
Such passion
Such love
For the melon
That intro song is hilarious. "think twice...b4 u answerrrr" lmao
I'm sitting here wondering what was Prince reaction when he watched this lol
would have been fun moments to share with prince!
Me too 😂
damn girl you got some nice mammaries
omg same haha! i can only imagine him watching this lol
HeyitsPiper....hey pretty!
Happy Juneteenth my brothas and sistas! See ya'll here next year!
Imagine that you struggle to discover the password of a Minecraft file for more than 7 years to realize that the content of the file is this video
ShamelessMaya and her heartfelt story with Prince was amazing!
back when dc was "chocolate city"
+obiwashere now its chocolate chip city :(
FACTS
1:57 You can HEAR it being digested by his stomach.
Watermelon with some salt and some fried chicken... it's the shit. Seriously, who the fuck don't like fried chicken and watermelon.
Th3uNn3rV3d yeah, but he likes watermelon plain.
+Th3uNn3rV3d Watermelon and friend chicken should bring people together, not drive them apart.
Thank you!
+otteaux - Amen, brother. Lol.
Slices are the best way to eat watermelon
Nick Rekieta brought me here and I'm so thankful. More people need to be like this man. Do your thing and don't give a damn about others.
There’s a 0% chance I’d leave my aunt alone with Petey Greene. He’d turn into my uncle
Real shit
I miss Petey. I grew up in the 70s watching him. As a kid I learned about racism, culturalism, overcoming poverty, overcoming drug addiction, becoming someone after incarceration. In DC in the 70s we made our feelings known and weren’t ashamed of sharing what we felt. We always “kept it real”. Petey was at the forefront of this as were other TV shows. All in the family. The Jeffersons.
We all laughed at ourselves and we weren’t offended. We all had our issues with each other but we knew we were all brothers and sisters underneath it all.
Don’t forget Sanford And Son
Nowadays they get offended if kids learn about those things
2:03-2:07 = Words to live by
"A TWANG" 👌🏼
Hahaha Shameless Maya sent me here. I love Prince even more now that I know he thought this was funny. Who's uncle is this?! Lol
Me Too!!! 😂😂😂
TMIwithJazz Wiz Khalifa sent me here
Yep-a whole Verzuz brought me here….in 2022
How did a verzuz bring you here?😂
@@gtoutofthawrld just look up “omarion watermelon” 😂
Now I wanna go buy a watermelon and eat it like I'm pose tah. Thanks for sending me shameless maya.
Love this guy. Been a fan for years. He preaches love in a time where it's not popular. His methods are awry, but look at the time he's doing it.
Mojang's greatest secret lol
This is the single most important video ever produced. Needs to be required curriculum in K-12.
LAWD have mercy
I have never seen someone being so passionate about how to eat a fruit.
Because people aren't honest. I could do a video just like this about how to mix Iced Tea or savor bacon.
The closed captioning is having a complete meltdown! LOL
lord have mercy lol
"don't cut the insides out of no watermelon and mix it with nothing else"
Can someone explain this triple-negative?
+The Ball Don't cut up a watermelon and mix it with anything else.
You're right, he made a mistake, it shoulda been a quintuple: "don't cut no insides out of no watermelon and don't mix it with nothing else", to make it intelligible.
it's a southern thing, libshit.
donnsald trump so it's mildly retarded like most southerners
If ya ain't gettn it, ya ain't Mercan
This video is so eighties. I wish we still had programming in low quality, it feels so real.
"Lawd Have Moicy!" Wallamelon right off the vine and I pluck it all the time. LMMFAO! He didn't eat it, he MADE LOVE to that sumbitch!
2:02-2:06-- Yup, that"s exactly what I was thinking...lol.
3:26 but you (twang sound effect) TWANG IT ! this guy's something else.
I'm here from the Minecraft video
same
Minecraft video?!
@@jeremy611right?!
Petey is such a brilliant man. It's too bad that his show was probably never reserved in any form at all, it would be an awesome DVD set.. So sad!
"Now don't mess your shirt up--"
(unintelligible)
"Just lay [sic] back!"
That's the best I can do, lol.
Prince sent this video to Maya because it was so funny. I agree it was very funny & I also got the message of this vid :)
Same. Be yourself. Be shameless.
I fuckin hate watermelon. But Petey was givin it up in this. Joe Louis loved watermelon but was afraid to eat it in public for fear of being stereotyped. Black folks have had a hard history here, but never should we be afraid to enjoy what we do.
“You Put A Twang Of Salt On A Sweet Melon” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was white, but after watching this video I'm now 10% black.
*slurp, *gurgle, *slop, *gulp...
I recorded a lot of his shows on VHS in the early '80s. I moved out of my mom's house in 1986 but I left all of my videos in the basement, in cardboard boxes. When I went back to get them a few months later, my mom had thrown them out.
Damn...that is a crime to lose all that archived media history, my utter condolences 🙏
@@mutalix
Thanks. My mom was a real bitch.
" you put a Twang of salt on a sweet melon" "a twang"
yes mam....if that’s what I should do...i will do 🙂
I am watching this because I was curious of Prince's sense of humor. I miss him soooo much. Thank you Maya for sending me here.
The ending song is Amazon by Earl Klugh, 1980
Love the slap bass at the end
I'll always remember Patrice on O&A whenever I see this. RIP, big guy.
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Omarion brought me here… he got a watermelon seed where his heart used to be…….
Petey is not lying . Some brothers do not want to eat watermelon around white folks too. Be yourself
It should have nothing to do with race. Be your self. Michael Jackson was fucked
Maya brought me here and I see why Prince found this so funny I laughed so hard and not only was it funny I also got the message and what he was trying to say.
“I know yall at home *chew probably saying to yourself *chew. ‘That’s one ignant 🥷’. But this here is a sweet watermelon!”
I know that’s right 😭
HE'S SO EXCITED
This has always been comedy gold.
You know it's been a good few years and I'm starting to think Petey might not have been just talking about Watermelons ...
Here from DannyDorito